Tagged: Markets coverage

Peter Cohan writes on DailyFinance.com about how the financial media seem to have no idea what moves markets. Cohan writes, “The basic problem is that what business journalists write about stocks doesn’t explain what...

Joe Mont of TheStreet.com reports that online trading site Zecco has released some software that will allow people reading business news online to trade in the stocks mentioned in the articles directly from the...

The Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility has opened an investigation into alleged leaks by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office to the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets in regards...

Sean Dougherty writes on Forbes.com about how the business media seems to want to call a bubble on every investment these days. Dougherty writes, “This is in large part because the business media still...

Three Wall Street banks suffered a legal setback when a federal appeals court in New York put on hold a ban on financial news service Theflyonthewall.com from quickly reporting ‘hot news’ about their analysts’...

John Hielscher of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune writes that The Wall Street Digest, a Sarasota-based investment newsletter, is being sued by readers for recommending hedge funds — in return for money paid for “public relations”...

Marketwatch.com has launched a new newsletter targeting investors to be written by Mark Hulbert called “Hulbert on Markets: What’s Working Now.” The weekly newsletter, which will be sold for $99 a year for introductory...

Business journalist Teri Buhl writes about how some business news media such as Bloomberg raced to break the news about the resignation of British prime minister Gordon Brown because of its importance to markets,...

Nicole Petallides, the Fox Business Network reporter who covers the New York Stock Exchange, was interviewed by WallStreetPit.com about what it was like to be on the floor of the exchange on Thursday. Here...